Smil's let's-face-the-facts-lack-of-illusion crust comes out loud and clear.
Ken comments on the drawings, and the narrator comments on his love for Ken's lack of illusions.
But this is well-crafted pulp, and the director contrives a neatly judged final shot before the credits: two people watching daytime TV, left alone with their lack of illusions.
In order to explain the lack of the illusion in the attractiveness judgement condition we turn instead to what is known about the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying the Ebbinghaus illusion.
The construction of soccer players is another problem to be solved, and it's one they undertake with a characteristic lack of sentiment or illusion.
Although Ms. Borree has always been a neat dancer, her performances sometimes look so careful as to lack the illusion of spontaneity.
Occasionally Fiona appears to have been manipulated by a lesser "puppeteer" who allowed her to "float" -- that is, lack the illusion of weight and contact with the ground.
Lack of effort, lack of concentration".
But we must remember that a lack of love is merely an illusion.
This bit, in particular: "He suffered from that anxiety about himself and his future which haunts, like a bad smell, the minds of most young men, though most of them are under the illusion that their lack of confidence is a unique and shameful fear which, if confessed, would make them an object of derision to their normal contemporaries".
